CLEMENTS HIGH SCHOOL MAY 1,

2014

DISTRICT RECOGNITION FOR GIRLS SOCCER

Loader Cayman 12 CHS Defensive MVP

Cole Sevilla 11 CHS Offensive MVP

Amante Natalie 12 CHS 1st Team All-District

Bellman Allison 11 CHS 1st Team All-District

Isis Evangeline 11 CHS 1st Team All-District

Rodriguez Guadalupe 12 CHS 1st Team All-District

Bottensek Brooke 12 DHS 1st Team All-District

Beskow Katherine 12 CHS 2nd Team All-District

Clingman Shelby 12 CHS 2nd Team All-District

Goldin-Blais Laurence 12 CHS 2nd Team All-District

Sistrunk Carrie 12 CHS 2nd Team All-District

Vidad Katelyn 12 CHS 2nd Team All-District

RETROSPECTIVE Our 2014 Retrospective Show will be on

Friday, May 9th this year. The event starts at 7:00 and ends at 9:00.  Clements High School is going to be transformed into a magnificent art gallery and we promise you will get to see some incredible art projects from our Art I, Drawing II, Drawing III, Sculpture/Ceramics, and Electronic Media students. There will be 23 AP Art Galleries this year and the award ceremony will be held at 8:30. 

NEW CLUB Clements Badminton Club is organizing a Staff-

Student Badminton Tournament that will take place in less than three weeks in the Commons. To help the club officers properly and effectively plan this event, please vote by using the buttons above to express your interest in participating. Each team will consist of one student club member and one faculty/staff. If there is enough staff participation, there may be special teams of just faculty/staff playing each other for bragging rights while everybody else cheer on. It will be lots of fun.

 

CONGRATS!!!!State 5A Boys Soccer Champions!

Soccer State T-shirts are here!!! 

There will be a table  set up near Ms. Perkins office during all lunches.

 

Clements FFA Horse judging team placed third in state competition at Texas Tech University.  There were over 600 teams that began competition at district levels and top 60 teams were at state.

Abbey Davis was the third place individual of the state contest. She was joined on the team by Lexie Clearman, Lauren Elliott, and Michelle Goss.

Our state qualifying Livestock judging team competes this coming  Saturday at Texas A&M. Competing on this team will be Michael Fink, Natalie Somerville, Christie Reynolds, and Kendyl Harper.

WAY TO GO

all three bands earned a sweepstakes award at the UIL Concert and Sight-Reading Contest

final Concert of the year is May 20th at HBU and our Symphonic Band will also perform at the Moores Opera House at the University of Houston and the New Performing Arts Center at Sam Houston State University on May 15th and May 17th.

 

Congratulations, Octathletes. Seven Lakes hosted the Octathlon Meet on

Saturday. Our team won several medals as follows:

Beryce Garcia – Gold in Essay Helen He – Bronze in Math, Silver in Essay,

Gold in Science Ingrid Wu – Bronze in Literature, Silver in

Math Alan Ji – Gold in Math with a perfect score

TENNIS

girls double team’ regional championship! They are headed to the state tennis tournament on April 28/29!

WAY TO GO

girls softball team’s district co-championship! Playoff information coming soon.

Congrats to

girls golf team’s second place finish at the regional golf tournament! They are also headed to state!

SAVE YOUR POP TABS

CHS PALS are collecting pop tabs from cans for the Ronald McDonald House Charity which provides a home for children receiving long term medical care in the medical center.  Pop tabs can be turned in to the bright yellow boxes located in the commons by the recycling containers or the front office or Mrs. Sparwasser’s room, 2103.  We will be collecting through May 12th. 

JOIN NOW

Want a fun way to earn your letterman & go to Disney next year?!

Join the award winning Stars Dance Team!!   Auditions are: Wednesday April 30th – Friday May

2nd in the dance room, right after school each day. Stop by the dance room for details from Ms. Barth

or scan any QR code you see around school on flyers or posters!

 

5/2 & 5/3 - Student Directed One Act Plays

IT’S BACK!!!!CLEMENTS IDOL MAY 3 7 P.M. IN AUDITORIUM TICKETS FIVE DOLLARS AT

DOOR YOU BE THE JUDGE OF TALENT!

Mark Your Calendar 5/6 - STAAR Algebra I EOC 5/7 - STAAR Biology EOC 5/8 - STAAR U.S. History EOC 5/8 - CHS Drum Line Concert 5/10 - Prom! 5/12 - Theatre Arts II Show 5/16 - Choir Spring Show 5/17 - CHS Family Crawfish Boil 5/20 - Orchestra Concert 5/21 - Senior Awards Ceremony

PROM

Prom! It is on Saturday, May 10th from 8:00 to 12:00 at J. W. Marriott, near Galleria

No tickets sold at door.

Obey dress code

Have fun!

GOOD LUCK!

In tennis, the girls doubles team of Nikita Pradeep and Sanjna Tripathy won the regional tournament Wednesday in Deer Park.  They will advance and play in the state tournament in Austin on April 28 & 29.  

 

EOC EOC Algebra 1 test will be on May 6th,

Biology test will be on May 7th, and U.S. History Test will be on May 8th. 

No late arrival for juniors and seniors on testing days.  That means we will have a full house! 

Each of these tests are 4 hours in length.  Therefore, if all goes well, testing will run from 7:30 – 12:15.  More information on lunch schedules to come.

**Students taking an AP test that conflicts with an EOC test, will take the AP test.**

Seniors:

  The Academic Excellence list for Spring

2014 has been posted on the patio window nearest the commons office.   Please check the list to verify if your name is there.   You must have met the requirements of a 4.7 fall average and no grade lower than an 80.  Any questions, please see Mrs. Micheaux in the commons office.

PENTATHLON RESULTS Andrew Tao 2nd place in Reading Comprehension Sara Rufael 2nd place in Sight Recitation Morgan Batiste-Simms 4th in Dramatic Interpretation Abuzar Noorali – 4th in Mixed Media art Brittny Efendy, Andrew Tao, & Tommy Zhang earned

Summa cum Laude in Pentathlon (top 10%) Sara Rufael & Morgan Batiste-Simms earned Maxima cum

Laude (top 20%) Varsha Mullangi earned Magna cum Laude (top 30%) Connie Yan, Abuzar Noorali, & Ryan Wey  earned Cum

Laude (top 40%). The pentathlon is a good measure of a student’s everyday

progress and achievement. Only half of all the students who attend receive a certificate for pentathlon; all of ours did.

Congrats

Please congratulate the following students.  They are Semifinalists in the United States Biology Olympiad and among the top 600 Biology students in the nation.  

Christopher Hsu Gene Hsu, Amy Ma, David Nie, Abhi Parmar Anish Rao, Edward Hu Grant Lu     

Bad Weather Make-Up Days

At the March 17 Regular Board meeting, the FBISD Board of Trustees approved an important revision to the current school calendar. The last instructional day of school has been changed to June 6. Therefore, the two bad weather instructional days will be made up on June 6 and May 26 (Memorial Day). The District will be closed on April 18, the scheduled Good Friday holiday.

College & Career Readiness Week

April 28-May 2 Professionals/Company

Volunteers needed for Career Fair on April 30th

Interested Please Contact Mrs. Nilsen

EOC TESTING

Dates for TestingDate Day Test

May 6 Tuesday Algebra I

May 7 Wednesday Biology

May 8 Thursday U.S. History

Shots for Seniors The passage of Senate Bill (SB) 1107, 82nd Texas

Legislature, Regular Session, requires that all students entering Texas institutions of higher education to be vaccinated against bacterial meningitis within the last five years and at least 10 days prior to the first day of class. If you have received the meningitis immunization (Menactra) after September 2009, you meet the minimum criteria. If not, schedule your appointment early. The school will NOT be sponsoring a meningitis clinic to update these shots. Vaccines through Texas Vaccines for Children program are no longer available to vaccinate students with insurance.

COLLEGE VISITS

The link to the college and career readiness center here at CHS is http://chsccrcenter.weebly.com/ccr-center-calendar.html In order for students to attend the college visits they must register for the event, registration closes at noon the day before the visit. All info on how to register is on this site.

PRO GRAD

Seniors can also earn hours by joining either the Clements Facebook page, Twitter, or the newly added Instagram. If a student joins, likes and shares one of our three social media pages, it is worth 1 hour to him or her.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR

Clements High School Graduation 2014 will be held on Saturday, June 7 at 11:00 a.m. in the Toyota Center.